1. Sunday July 27 at 8pm is MARS NIGHT on the Discovery Channel (satellite TV). Could find no details on their website but only had a short time to search as getting September issue of A&S to the printer in the next few days. It's sure to be a good show. I think someone else told me it is a series, on every Sunday? 2. Morning Ireland were to interview me about the International Space Station blazing across the sky (until August 5th) on Friday just before 9am but they ran out of time and want to do it Monday morning instead (though I've a feeling it may slide to Tuesday morning. Tune in to RTE RADIO 1 or listen live on the net at http://www.radio1.ie/ I saw I.S.S. again last night. It was an amazing sight even from heavily light polluted Dublin, magnitude -2 or -3 as it glided gracefully through the summer triangle. The next crew were just announced - Mike Foale and Alexander Kaleri, both space veterans with 7 previous space flights between them totalling nearly 600 days in space. They will be launched on a Soyuz on October 18 for their 6 month tour of duty. Keep calling 1550-111-442 (or 09001-88-1950 from U.K.) every afternoon for the prediction of when to see ISS each evening some time after sunset. And please pass this number on to friends! Give Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko a wave! Don't forget to listen in to Radio 1... ===== David Moore BSc FRAS, Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 5. Editor, "Astronomy & Space" magazine. ASTRONOMY SHOP: open Mon.-Fri. 9am-6pm and Sat. noon-6pm. Tel (01) 847 0777. Fax (01) 847 0771. WWW: http://www.astronomy.ie (Subscribe FREE to AI's Events emailing list) Email: info@astronomy.ie